LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Dooey, Co. Donegal.—The institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum and £2 to each of two men, Mr. John...
Category: Services
Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Developed By Rnli from a Design Originated at Atlantic College South Wales Hull Flat-Bottomed for Beaching Is Marine Ply Or Grp With Infla
Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat developed by RNLI from a design originated at Atlantic College, South Wales. Hull, flat-bottomed for beaching, is marine ply or grp with inflatable topsides. Console seat for crew of three contains radio. Speed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Where There's a Will There's a Way
To HELP THE RNLI The RNLI needs some £48m to fulfil its commitments during 1992 - and to raise such a huge sum of money from entirely voluntary contributions the Institution looks to a vast number of very varied sources. Flag weeks,...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.
The IRB was...
Category: Services
Past and Present
50 years ago LIFE-BOAT BULLETIN No.24 1946 A year of peace In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives.
That is an average of 56 lives a month and is only 50 lives less...
Category: Articles
Ernie Came Too, to Boost the Sales of RNLI Cook Books With His Autograph, Backed Up By Our Old Friend. Sergeant Frank Elverson Who, Singlehanded, Collected £800 D
Ernie came too, to boost the sales of RNLI Cook Books with his autograph, backed up by our old friend. Sergeant Frank Elverson who, singlehanded, collected £800 during the show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£1,617 from the Austin Motor Company.
Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
The boat was very quickly and efficiently recovered by a horde of enthusiastic helpers, in pouring rain and gale force winds, under the expert coordination of the head launcher, Ronald White.
For...
Category: Services
Eloise
Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...